Jay Vining
New Member
Going to start a couple separate threads here but will put them in appropriate places.
TLDR
Well pumped sand a couple nights ago. So much so that when a regen started it hit the pre-filter so hard it blew the bottom out and started flooding the basement. In the hurry of waking up from a dead sleep to the sound of the trash pump running I whipped the raw water to bypass the filter train.
Water heater pre filter was plugged solid with white sand. Backflushed, flushed according to manual, backflushed with no pre filter etc. Can get flow out of the hot outlet for a short period then it plugs off. Will flow backwards (in hot out cold) fine. My assumption here is that I'm looking at a new exchanger on a 16month old unit..... for 800 bucks am I better off just buying a whole new unit? I am unfamiliar with how much more stuff the sand has ruined in here. No trouble codes or anything ( I haven't fired the burner long at all in fear of baking it in there).
Thanks!
TLDR
Well pumped sand a couple nights ago. So much so that when a regen started it hit the pre-filter so hard it blew the bottom out and started flooding the basement. In the hurry of waking up from a dead sleep to the sound of the trash pump running I whipped the raw water to bypass the filter train.
Water heater pre filter was plugged solid with white sand. Backflushed, flushed according to manual, backflushed with no pre filter etc. Can get flow out of the hot outlet for a short period then it plugs off. Will flow backwards (in hot out cold) fine. My assumption here is that I'm looking at a new exchanger on a 16month old unit..... for 800 bucks am I better off just buying a whole new unit? I am unfamiliar with how much more stuff the sand has ruined in here. No trouble codes or anything ( I haven't fired the burner long at all in fear of baking it in there).
Thanks!